6  Editor's Note

7  Editorial:
      Lessons for My Children

38  Making a Living:
      Huckleberry Tent and Breakfast, by Doug Fluckiger

40  Lenie in the kitchen
      Banana, blueberry, and peach scones

42  Irreverent joke page

46  Ayoob on Firearms:
      How long should your gun's barrel length be?

51  Ask Jackie:
      Beet seeds, American River Cane, making hominy, etc.

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83  The last word:
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Self-reliance

26  Snapping turtles
      By Jason Akers

28  How to skin a snapping turtle
      By N. V. Zahradnicek

31  Prepper power!
      By Jeff Yago, P.E., CEM

60  Journey to the backwoods, part 4
      By David Lee

Building/Projects

8  Building Eric's house, part 7
      By Dorothy Ainsworth

55  Build a chicken house in a day
      By Anita Evangelista

75  Build an outdoor mud oven
      By Leah Larson

Farm and garden

18  Incredible corn: Easy to raise and a great pantry filler
      By Jackie Clay-Atkinson

72  Control weeds with hoeing
      By Tom Kovach

74  Horses drew better pay
      By Tom Kovach

Food and recipes

34  Huckleberries: purple gold
      By Laura Roady

67  Wrap and roll foods your family will love
      By Linda Gabris

Animals

43  Getting started with oxen
      By Anna Knapp-Peck